Graham: Gitmo's 'crazy bastards'

Sen. Lindsey Graham charged Thursday that Guantanamo Bay is full of “crazy bastards” who should not be brought to the United States.

“Simply stated, the American people don’t want to close Guantanamo Bay, which is an isolated, military-controlled facility, to bring these crazy bastards that want to kill us all to the United States,” the Republican senator from South Carolina said in a floor speech. “Most Americans believe that the people at Guantanamo Bay are not some kind of burglar or bank robber. They are bent on our destruction. And I stand with the American people that we’re under siege, we’re under attack and we’re at war.”

His comments came during a Senate debate concerning the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“Some of my colleagues in this body have forgotten what 9/11 is all about,” Graham continued. “The people who attacked us on 9/11, in that prison, want to destroy our way of life. They don’t want to steal your car. They don’t want to break in your house. And we’ve got a military prison being well run, so I think the American people are telling everybody in this body, ‘Have you lost your mind? We’re at war. Act like you’re at war.’”

“I will tell you, since I know this record of this debate will be widely read, that I want to make formal objection to the ‘crazy bastards standard,’” Paul said on the Senate floor. “I don’t really think that if we’re going to have a ‘crazy bastards’ standard that we shouldn’t have a right to trial by jury, because if we’re going to lock up all the crazy bastards, for goodness sakes, would you not want, if you’re a crazy bastard, to have a right to trial by jury?”

Earlier this week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also released a report from the Government Accountability Office that detailed a process in which Guantanamo detainees could be transferred to U.S. prisons.